A teacher who lost his job at a Catholic school for possessing indecent images of children has been allowed to return to work. Geoffrey Bettley, 36, is free to resume his career as a religious studies teacher even though police officers found almost 200 images of child abuse on his computer. He

Relationships that begin on the internet can lead to longer and happier marriages than those which start in the real world, according to research. The stigma of online dating has faded as millions have turned to the web in search of romance and their digital dalliances have proved fruitful. More

It took four days for word to reach Britain that Everest had finally been conquered, and news of the achievement was relayed to the nation on the morning of the Queen’s Coronation on June 2, 1953. Last night, exactly 60 years after Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of the

A network of civilian counter-terrorism officials who will gather information on the risk of extremism at each university has been installed for the first time. The co-ordinators, all of whom will be in their posts by the end of the year, are officially described as best-practice “champions” who

A network of civilian counter-terrorism officials who will gather information on the risk of extremism at each university has been installed for the first time. The co-ordinators, all of whom will be in their posts by the end of the year, are officially described as best-practice “champions” who

The Help for Heroes website was unable to handle a surge in donations yesterday after the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby, who was wearing one of its T-shirts. The organisation was forced to take its struggling website down as thousands of people tried to buy T-shirts and make contributions at the

Mosques were attacked and anti-Muslim extremists clashed with police amid simmering tensions last night after the murder of a soldier in Woolwich, southeast London. More than 100 members of the far-Right English Defence League turned out in Woolwich, skirmishing with police and threatening a

A former football apprentice admitted in court yesterday that he lost control and stabbed his wife repeatedly in front of their young son after she threatened him with a knife. Andrew Parsons, who was once a trainee at Cardiff City, denied planning to kill his wife, Janee, who had confessed to

From Cumbria to Devon, Britons woke up to a blanket of snow yesterday as an unseasonable cold snap ensured that summer remains a distant prospect. The England cricket team start the first Test of the season today, but conditions 24 hours earlier were more suited to ice hockey. “It’s crazy,” said

It was probably the first time that officers from Norfolk Constabulary had broken up a fight involving two doctors and a judge. Rival science-fiction clubs had to be separated by the force at the weekend as the Norwich Star Wars convention descended into a brawl. Aficionados of the space series